Neelima Tirumalasetti, a victim of outsourcing to India, is determined to continue her fight even though the US Court for Northern District of Texas at Dallas has ruled in favour of her former employer Caremark PCS in Richardson, Texas.
A senior IT analyst in quality assurance, she began to face racial harassment after the news of outsourcing some of the work from the facility to an IBM office in Bangalore spread.
Soon colleagues began to call her 'brown-skinned bitch,' 'dirty Indian,' among other insults, accused her of coming to the US to 'take their jobs,' mocked her accent in team meetings, and excluded her from team projects.
Life turned miserable and there was no help coming from the company, one of the major pharmaceutical firms in the country, which recently merged with CVS.
"I truly and sincerely believe that I did not receive a fair trial. All my claims on retaliation and discrimination were struck down and the only claim that was allowed to go in for trial was the generic hostile environment claim," Tirumalasetti, who plans to appeal the verdict to the Fifth Circuit Court, said.
It was a jury trial, which started April 16 and ended April 23. "My attorneys also feel that it needs to be appealed," she said.